Grixis Delver Modern w/o Lurrus

Modern* Counterspell Delver Spellslinger UBR (Grixis)

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Land (19)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 3x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 2x Spirebluff Canal
• 2x Steam Vents
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (21)

• 3x Fatal Push
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 3x Opt
• 1x Spell Snare
• 3x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 2x Drown in the Loch
• 2x Archmage's Charm
• 2x Kolaghan's Command

Sorcery (10)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Serum Visions
• 1x Collective Brutality
• 2x Dreadbore

Creature (9)

• 4x Delver of Secrets  ^Flip
• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 3x Sprite Dragon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x The Royal Scions

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection
• 2x Dispel
• 1x Infernal Reckoning
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Rakdos Charm

Artifact (4)

• 2x Nihil Spellbomb
• 2x Damping Sphere

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Alpine Moon

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 2x Stone Rain

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Maybeboard

Instant (5)

• 2x Flusterstorm
• 1x Thought Scour
• 2x Terminate

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Alpine Moon

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Unearth

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Grixis Delver without Lurrus

I closed my Grixis Control Deck The Golden Glory of the God-Pharaoh but want to keep it with another tactic. Therefore i reordered it to Grixis Delver. I had the landbase and the most cards, so it wasnt a complete turn around.

Why without Lurrus? Yeah, Lurrus can help us bringing back our creatures, but since we first have to get him for {3} and than able to play him for {1}{B}{B} on the same turn and have a Counter to get him into play, i think it slows the deck down. Yeah, if we have 6-8 lands on the board and an emppty hand it could be a threat. But it also cuts down our creatures. I like playing Gurmag Angler and Tasigur, the Golden Fang so i don't want to have Lurrus purring around and disableing my big hitters.

Creatures

• Delver of Secrets  
is the main card and the build around piece.
• Sprite Dragon
Flying, Haste and the ability to growth while spellslinging is a big threat if unanswered.
• Gurmag Angler
is a big 5/5 body that can use the spellslinging cards and Fetchlands to get on the field about Turn 3.
• Tasigur, the Golden Fang
is similar to Gurmag Angler and can give us cards back and with delve we can preorder that choice.

Landbase

• Fetch Lands

With Polluted Delta and Bloodstained Mire we have 6 fetchlands to fix our manabase to get {U}{U}{U} and {1}{B}{R} pretty fast at the same time

• Shock Lands

Fetch to Shock is usual for modern. Especially if we can react to our opponent with every Color on their own turn. Steam Vents, Watery Grave and bloodcrypt are important to include.

• Fast Lands

With 92% CMC1 to CMC3 cards we can easily run those without worriyng about the restriction to enter tapped. And while {U} is the dominant color in this deck we run only Spirebluff Canal and Darkslick Shores

• Basics

to get around Blood Moon there a two Island and a Swamp to get acces to blue and black sources.

• Situational

Field of Ruin gives us the ability to get rid of a dominant land like any Tron land or a Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin   or a Celestial Colonnade. With that many mainboard targets in a bunch of decks, a one of is an autoinclude for me.

Spells

• Counters

With Spell Snare, Mana Leak, Logic Knot and Countersquall we have 6 pure counter spells to handle the early Threats. With Drown in the Loch and Archmage's Charm we have 4 additional Counter if needed. All in all we have 10 possible counter spells.

• Removal

Lightning Bolt is an autoinclude, a cheap shot against everything. Fatal Push is great in modern. It hits almost everything relevant in modern for just {B} and with 6 fetches it can easily hit the bigger targets. Dreadbore kills evrything including Planeswalker. So a couple doesn't hurt to play. And with Drown in the Loch and Koaghan's Command we have 4 additional Removal if needed.

• Disruption

Inquisition of Kozilek gives information about the opponents plans and delay or completly disrupts it. And even here Kolaghan's Command can be used for disruption.

• Filter and Resources

Opt and Serum Visions are important to filter our deck and hit the right cards to win the game. Archmage's Charm and Tasigur, the Golden Fang gives us new or old cards if we ran out of ammo. The Royal Scions are helping to loot through the deck and fill the grave for Tasigur, the Golden Fang and Gurmag Angler. Beside that they give a creature +2/+0 and trample, which gives more Power to the Attacks.

• Situaional

Kolaghan's Command, Archmage's Charm and Drown in the Loch are a big thing in this deck. Because we can use them in almost every situation. Drawing cards, counter threats, remove threats on the field or revive a creature. Here we go.

Sideboard

• Damnation
against a horde of creatures, like elves, slivers, goblins other tribal stuff or much tokens
• Ceremonius Rejection
against Tron, eldrazi or heavy artifact decks
• Collective Brutality
against Burn or Control for more disruption. Maybe we have to play more than one copy.
• Damping Sphere
against Tron and Storm. I like over Alpine Moon because it disupts storm all alone and we don't have pretty much against it otherwise.
• Dispel
against control. For just {U} we can beat every instant like Cryptic Command, Secure the Waste or other Instant big hitters.
• Infernal Reckoning
against Tron, eldrazi and artifacts. I like this spell pretty much. {B} for exile and livegain. A black reversed Path to Exile against colorless creatures. Wurmcoile Engine? Gone, +6 live and no 3/3 tokens to worrie about. Hangarback Walker? Gone, +X live and no tokens to worrie about.
• Nihil Spellbomb
against Dredge and other graveyard relying decks
• Rakdos Charm
against Elves, Slivers and other horde decks. Make them hit their master. Also destroys artifacts or exiles the grave. Take it.
• Stone Rain
Dominant Lands? Burn them down.

Maybeboard and discussions

• Terminate or Dreadbore
Which is better? Terminate hits with instant speed, but Dreabore gives us more targets and removes Planeswalker easily.
• Alpine Moon or Damping Sphere
Which is better? Alpine Moon Shuts down Tron, but so does Damping Sphere, which is 1 CMC more, but also destroys Storm.
• More Collective Brutality
I want to play 1 or 2 more of them. But what to cut down? Maybe one Stone Rain since i run a Field of Ruin? Open to discuss!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #5 position in Modern 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 3 Rares 29 - 6 Uncommons 3 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.59